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⚔️ Meta vs. OpenAI: Battle for Superintelligence

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Altman’s remarks come as Meta dramatically accelerates its AI efforts, deepening the battle for superintelligence that’s redefining the future of AI.


💸 Just invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI, a key data-labeling company.

🚀 Hired Alexandr Wang, Scale’s CEO, to lead its new “superintelligence” team.

📉 Reportedly postponed new model releases after staff departures and internal shakeups.

🧠 Sees OpenAI as its #1 competitor, according to Altman.


“I’ve heard that Meta thinks of us as their biggest competitor,” he said on the podcast.

🧠 Inside the Battle for Superintelligence: Why AI Engineers Are Worth $100M


In today’s AI gold rush, top-tier machine learning engineers aren’t just valuable—they’re foundational. One elite researcher can mean the difference between:


  • Training a world-beating model or being stuck behind competitors


  • Shipping a product like ChatGPT or falling behind in infrastructure


  • Leading the open-source wave or losing trust in the dev community


And companies aren’t shy about it. With tens of billions on the line, signing bonuses are being measured in NBA-contract-level digits.


⚠️ The Bigger Picture


The AI hiring frenzy has broader implications:


  • Retention is the new innovation: Keeping your talent might be harder than building the tech.


  • Poaching wars could increase secrecy, reduce collaboration, and widen the gap between Big Tech and open-source communities.


  • Smaller startups may struggle to compete—even if they have the ideas, they might not be able to afford the talent.


🧵 Final Byte


Meta’s offers signal just how high the stakes have become in the AI arms race. But so far, Altman says his team isn’t budging.


“We’ve got amazing people,” he said. “And they believe in what we’re doing.”

Still, when $100 million is on the table, loyalty is being tested in a way Silicon Valley has rarely seen.



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